Autumn

AutumnMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Long listed for the Gordon Burn Prize One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner The New York Times, Martha Kearney The Guardian, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Southern Living, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth,

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Dwight Garner/The New York Times, Martha Kearney/The Guardian, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Southern Living, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Morning News, Kirkus Reviews

Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.

A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d'esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love--and stories themselves.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 10/17/2017
ISBN: 9781101969946
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d